Top Ten Speakers of All Time?


Well its time for a new Top Ten Thread. WOW-Have I learned a lot.Thanks to all Audiogon members.Have had several e mail thanking the Top Ten Threads. We have a lot of new members just starting their High End adventure. Info was much appreciated. I will start the thread for the Acoustat 2+2 and Model 2 of which I still own and continue to enjoy. So lets have your top ten members. --- MANY THANKS ---
ferrari
Can anyone say REVEL???? I was, a short time ago, in an audio store that carried B&W, Revel, and Vandersteen. They had a room of all Levinson equipment to try out these lines. The B&W 802 were on a pair of 33H. the sound was good, but not great. We traded the B&W for the Vandersteen 3 and went down hill. After the disappointment, we walk to another room of identicle size where they had a Classe system consisting of the CDP1, a 47.5 pre, and the CA200 amp hooked up to a pair of Revel Studios, the small brother of the Salons. The sound was the best I have heard to date. I attend CES every year and still have found nothing better. Assuming the Levinson equipment is better than the Classe, The Studios were even more impressive. STUDIOS, STUDIOS, STUDIOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apogee Divas, Infinity IRS, JBL Paragon, MBL 101 D- Radialstrahler, original B&W Nautilus, Martin Logan Statements.
Klipschorns would most definitely have to be at the top of that there list.They were developed before many of us so called audio fanatics were born! It's almost like being in the league of Tommy Edison for developing the phonograph.

Other notables would be KLH,Magnepan,JBL,BOSE(for the 901's),Advent and there must be other's but those names have to be in the hall of fame.
the large advent,the dahlquist 10,the bose 901,the allison 4 ,the rogers ls 3/5, the epi 100,the spica 50,the shahinian arc,the vandy 2ce,the klipch heresy....honorable mention the ohm walsh designs....all were infinately musical and affordable..the vandys and the bose still are.
Goldmund Dialogues. These obscure speakers were offered briefly in the 80s in this country and were light years beyond any other dynamic at the time. I'm out of touch now so I can't speak to how well they hold up to modern achievers but here's the facts. They are 4 ohm, 96 db efficiency, and sport the fastest crossover in history with slopes in excess of 60 db/octave. The drivers are 1 inch inverted soft dome tweeter, 7 inch midrange, 7 inch woofer. All drivers are made by Focal. The cabinets are synthetic stone and weigh in somewhere around 150 lbs. each. I love them.
Certainly they are a top ten item but as I said I don't know where they would fit on the scale.